Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.
An Iowa woman jokingly calls it "Satan's handiwork." A California mom says she's broken down in tears. A Pennsylvania parent says it "makes my blood boil." What could be so horrible? Grade-school math ...
RALEIGH -- I knew that we would get here eventually, but I had no idea that I would be struggling with my child's math homework in the first grade. In my defense, I simply wasn't prepared for the ...
I’ll be the first to admit that math isn’t my strongest subject. I’d even go as far as saying I’m pretty much innumerate (illiterate but for numbers – not a real word but go with it.) With that being ...
When she realized she couldn't help out her daughter, Amanda Sarno had to have an "embarrassing" conversation with her teacher.
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Google's Socratic is checking your kids' math homework, and that's a good thing. The tool is powered by optical character recognition (OCR), which uses scanning and artificial intelligence. The ...